Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

Some folks fit cool, funny descriptions of themselves in the 160 characters that Twitter provides for a bio: Tony Posnanski - I am fat, bald, and ugly. I’m also funny and talented.  Hardik Rajgor  - I stare at a screen for 8 hours, press keys on a keyboard & get paid money for it so I can buy a better screen next year.  balld_mamba  - On Twitter just for NBA highlights🍀 and stats tbh.. and memes  edit: and frustrated tweets about the corrupt political system.  Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志)  - Scientist & Professor (科学者&教授). Tweet is a soliloquy based on my personal views (ツィートは個人の見解に基づく独り言です). Owen Hughes - Freelance writer & editor covering tech, work and biz. Coffee enthusiast and dad joke connoisseur. Brilliant views my own.  M D Madhusudan  - Average naturalist. Hesitant ecologist. Confused conservationist. Weary of experts. Loves play-doh. And maps. Wants to write better code. Srijan Mahajan - Learning how to adult while staying curious. Building things  @pause_family.

This Week I Learned -   * Some Microsoft certification exams like SC 900 now have a free practice assessment.  *  Google Cloud architecture diagramming tool  - Usage instructions , icons * Upstream Kubernetes is also known as native Kubernetes. Downstream Kubernetes is also known as distributed Kubernetes, software that is built on top of native Kubernetes and generally offers additional features to ease installation, monitoring, and security. -  Containerization Readiness Guide *  Kong is an open source API gateway and platform that acts as middleware between compute clients and the API-centric applications. The platform extends the capabilities of APIs with the use of plugins. It is built for multi-cloud and hybrid, and optimized for microservices and distributed architectures.  *  Large Language Models (LLM) have incredible “memory” . GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters. That is about 350GB (175b 16-bit floating point numbers). Wikipedia has about 50 GB of text and 100 GB of images,

This Week I Learned -  * Cloud Foundry is an open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for building, deploying, and operating 12-factor applications developed in various languages and frameworks. There are two forms of Cloud Foundry available to run on Azure : open-source Cloud Foundry (OSS CF) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF). OSS CF is an entirely open-source version of Cloud Foundry managed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is an enterprise distribution of Cloud Foundry from Pivotal Software Inc. which is now acquired by VMware. It is now called Tanzu Application Service (TAS). VMware is transitioning from Cloud Foundry to Tanzu tools and nomenclature. * Free ebook -  Azure SQL Revealed: A Guide to the Cloud for SQL Server Professionals ;519 pages, 2021 *  Terraform Workshop slides *  OpenStack began as a joint project between Rackspace and NASA .   *  OpenStack is an open source platform that uses pooled virtual resources to build and manage private and public c

Paraphrased from a Google Cloud articles  - Digital transformation drives foundational change in how an organization operates, optimizes internal resources, and delivers value to customers.  Organizations choose digital transformation frameworks as a way to reimagine themselves staying competitive in their respective businesses and industries.  The meaning of “Digital transformation” is broadening and evolving . A 2018 McKinsey Global Survey found that 68% of respondents saw digitizing the organization’s operating model as the most common objective of digital transformations, and less than half said their target was launching new products or services or interacting with external partners on digital channels .  Today, there is a growing difference between digitalization and true digital transformation — a critical distinction in an era where every organization is now a technology company in some, if not every, way.  Responses from a Google Cloud survey in 2022 of more than 2,100 globa

This Week I Learned -  * When doing Azure design reviews (or any review for that matter), Microsoft employees (such as FastTrack for Azure engineers) and Microsoft partners often leverage Excel spreadsheets as the medium of choice to document findings and track design improvements and recommendations. This Checklist Review Spreadsheet shared on Github has a button to import the latest JSON-formated checklist. There is also a web front-end for this tool in which the engineers from the Microsoft FastTrack for Azure organization have documented hundreds of best practices across different technologies so that anybody can benefit from them. * " Kubernetes is a nightmare for the exact same reason that it is awesome. " * Terraform is an open source DevOps tool written in the Go programming language that uses Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) to define and provision your infrastructure.  Terraform can help you provision resources through what is called a provider.  A Terrafor

This Week I Learned -  *  The Developer’s Guide to Azure is constantly updated and has a quick run through of the major Azure services with links to online resources. I liked the visual summaries from the latest edition  *  Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, Fourth Edition ; 287 pages; 2021 *  Microsoft Defender for Cloud can monitor all your services, both in Azure and on-premises. * Formerly known as Stackdriver, Google Cloud Operations Suite is a platform where you can monitor, troubleshoot, and improve application performance on your Google Cloud environment. Key Pillars of Cloud Operations Suite include Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging and Cloud Tracing. * Kubernetes gives Pods their own IP addresses and a single DNS name for a set of Pods, and can load-balance across them. * Premises is singular word for a location, premise is a proposition for an argument. On-prem is short for on-premises * Using leading edge technologies requires you to be comfortable with change * Some